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Posted by on May 18, 2011, 20:38Tom Tucker, former community relations officer of the London Mining company is presently spending uncomfortable nights at the CID in Freetown, as he is being investigated for the sum of $125,000 being monies he should have spent on community projects. The first of such huge amount was expected to have been spent on water wells for the people of Lunsar, Marampa and Pepel,

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Posted by on May 18, 2011, 20:26The long awaited telecommunication alleged criminal fraud and conspiracy case filed by the state on behalf of the company against five Defendants, initially at the Magistrate Court and was later committed to the High Court has reached its final conclusion with a guilty verdict slammed on four of the Defendants, leaving one of them acquitted and discharged to walk the streets of Freetown as a free man.

The Mayor of the Freetown City Council, Mr. Herbert George Williams has found himself sandwiched between the devil and the deep sea finding ways and means to come out of this predicament and refund to his numerous debtors the sum of Seven Billion Seven Hundred and Twenty Six Million Six Hundred and Ten Thousand Leones he owes the Rokel Commercial Bank, the First International Bank and the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPEW) last Thursday organized a national awareness workshop for senior decision and policy makers and stakeholders of the National Authority of Sierra Leone on the National Implementation of the Chemical Weapon Convention at the Presidential Lounge of the National Stadium in Freetown

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Posted by on May 15, 2011, 03:04Journalists, political pundits, analysts, and trend observers, have through many articles in the columns of daily tabloids in Sierra Leone, warned this 60 year old grandfather of politics in West Africa – The Sierra Leone People Party (SLPP) of the possible danger of collapse into oblivion, if that party did not change course immediately.

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations specialized agency that promotes and accelerates sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition has appointed Dr Patrick Kormawa, a Sierra Leone as Representative to the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Posted by Ansumana Komba Kanu on May 15, 2011, 01:16Prison Officers attached to the Technical Department at the Pademba Road Maximum Prisons were last Tuesday seen taking active part in the construction of a private dwelling house belonging to the new acting Director of Prisons, Mr.Sampha Billo Koroma at the Regent Village in Freetown

As we celebrate Sierra Leone’s 50 years of Independence, AdvocAid and L.A.W.Y.E.R.S also celebrate the President’s pardon of four women who were released from prisons across the country on 27 April 2011. On behalf of these poor, illiterate women we wish to say thank you to His Excellency the President for exercising his prerogative of mercy and for enabling them to celebrate the Jubilee as free women

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Posted by Michael Massaquoi, Coordinator, Peacebuilding Commission Secretariat on May 15, 2011, 00:55That time is here again for the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) led by Ambassador John McNee, Chair, Sierra Leone Configuration to take stock of the strides the country is making in its Peacebuilding programmes. The delegation will be in Freetown from May 23-27

Recently the staff of Me Against Poverty, Inc. (MAP), along with over sixty supporters gathered to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Sierra Leone’s independence in Washington, DC and raise money for the library and computer center for the Yonibana Secondary School in Sierra Leone.

On Stage Perfoming the Classic "50/50" North America husband and Wife Drama

Sierra Leoneans and other Winnipeggers from all corners of the city of Winnipeg, in celebratory mood, engaged on Saturday April 30th, 2011 to get a taste of Sierra Leone in what can be described as a very successful event at the Bulman Centre in the University of Winnipeg

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Posted by on May 8, 2011, 14:44The legal process was slowed down to give way to diplomacy to produce positive results, but has turned out to be a failure as both sides have not benefited from the outcome of the diplomatic talks to end the rent stalemate between the owner of Cabenda Hotel, now the official residence of the ERSG, Mr. Schulenburg and the headquarter of both UNIPSIL and the United Nations as the tenant in Sierra Leone

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Posted by on Apr 26, 2011, 14:29The Sierra Leone Community of the Dallas-Fort Worth is a conglomeration of Sierra Leonean organizations in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolis.Our organizations coming togetherand “celebrating Sierra Leone at 50” demonstrates a sense of cohesiveness and a manifestation of political